Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 214: Non-Chief Tool Man Million Ounces

Mid-May 1960, Tianjin Wharf.

Zhao Mancang once again completed a transaction with Ma Jiugong, Yuan Yushan and others. The goods of this transaction included the two Farmer fighter jets previously and the lens production equipment traded from Gallic Chicken.

Lenses are optical instruments and equipment. They are high-tech industrial products and are widely used in scanning electron microscopes, lithography machines, film shooting equipment, dense wavelength division multiplexers and other fields.

Although lenses are still considered high-end equipment in the University of Tokyo today and are generally used in microscopes, cameras, etc., photolithography machines are not available anywhere else in the world.

At Sam's side, the lithography machine is just a high-end equipment that is still in the process of being invented. It has not yet begun to evolve into a shielded lithography machine, a projection lithography machine, etc., let alone a deep ultraviolet lithography machine and an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

After completing the transaction, Zhao Mancang checked his experience value balance and found that it had successfully exceeded 20,000.

He immediately used a portion of it to upgrade his system space, increasing the capacity to 300 million jin of grain.

After the system space is expanded, Zhao Mancang will be able to transport more goods when conducting such large-scale commodity transactions in the future.

However, according to the current transaction frequency and scale, the system space capacity may not be able to keep up.

If there were no transit station like Lingguang County, and in recent times, his transactions with Ma Jiugong and others would have been to control the frequency and quantity in order to maximize experience points and space utilization.

Otherwise, a one-time large-scale barter would directly expose Zhao Mancang.

After all, if Ma Jiugong and the others knew that he couldn't take away tens or millions of tons of goods at one time, wouldn't that be a revelation?

Although the trust between the two parties is very high, Zhao Mancang does not test human nature, so he would not reveal such an obvious weakness to the other party.

After bringing the goods to the Lingguang County warehouse, Zhao Mancang made the relevant arrangements and then returned to the capital. He gained experience points in front of Hu Xiaocao and the others, and then spent another night with Lin Wan before leaving the capital.

He calculated the time and tried to return to the capital before she gave birth.

After all, as a doctor, he must be very clear about Lin Wan's condition, so it is normal for him to return to the capital before Lin Wan gives birth.

Of course, we can't be too punctual, we have to make sure it's a real 'accident'.

why?

Leaders like Wei Huayong are not fools. When Lin Wan gave birth to Xiao Taozi, Zhao Mancang returned to the capital very "punctually" and was able to witness Xiao Taozi's birth.

Now that we are giving birth to our second child, there must be some "surprises" and it can't be too smooth.

Hong Kong and Kowloon, Zhao Mancang returned here after more than three months. The city of Hong Kong and Kowloon has changed a lot, but not too much.

The reason why there are so many changes is that a lot of buildings have been built in Hong Kong and Kowloon, and commercial buildings are rising from the ground everywhere. It can be said that it is a very prosperous city.

But in such a city, there is actually no change.

There is not much movement in the Hong Kong stock market, and many companies remain the same.

At the Wanbang Building in Sheung Wan, Zhao Mancang found the person in charge and learned about the current development status of many companies including Hongyuan Holdings, Island Development Bank, and Sing Sing Daily.

In fact, with Zhao Mancang's current status, he doesn't need to come to the company to meet these persons in charge, but he doesn't want to be sidelined. He comes here to show his presence as the boss.

Zhao Mancang will not interfere in daily management at all, but he definitely needs to know the general direction of the company's development and make timely adjustments and arrangements.

The former head of Hongyuan Holdings, Orly Fax, and his team have already gone to New York, and there has been no major movement in Hong Kong and Kowloon in the past few months, so there is nothing much to talk about.

The only thing is to set up a dark market to acquire the shares of Jardine Matheson Group's Land Development Company. Zhao Mancang has set his eyes on this company and must take it over at all costs.

It is not just about revenge, but also about giving British capital a heavy blow.

Of course, Zhao Mancang is not in a hurry at all and just takes his time.

The second is the Hong Kong Development Bank, which has developed very rapidly thanks to the strong financial support from Zhao Mancang.

In terms of attracting deposits from Hong Kong and Kowloon residents, the Development Bank has currently attracted more than 100,000 citizens to open accounts and deposit money, with the deposit amount reaching HK$2.7 billion.

Although the amount of funds is not very large, after all, the gold, US dollars, etc. that Zhao Mancang himself has deposited in the bank have reached 2.3 billion US dollars.

Of course, Zhao Mancang still has a lot of gold and US dollar cash on hand, but he didn't take them out.

It takes time for the market to digest these US dollar cash. Zhao Mancang doesn't want to be caught up by people from Sam's Intelligence Agency just after he has "laundered the money".

In addition, there is another point. Since he had previously sold tens of thousands of tons of rutile in Europe and received a lot of US dollar cash, Zhao Mancang also discovered that the Federal Reserve seemed to have started to print money again.

He didn't know exactly how much US dollar cash the Federal Reserve had printed, but he guessed it was a lot.

After all, the volume of his transactions with Ma Jiugong and others has gradually increased, and he has done a lot of things in Sam's Club, Hong Kong and Kowloon, etc. These are almost all economic activities.

The most important thing is that the scale of each of his transactions is not small, which can be said to be a bulk transaction.

Such a large number of transactions will more or less be reflected in some local economic quantities.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang was able to guess that the Federal Reserve would print a large amount of US dollar cash.

Especially now that it is the 1960s, the war has probably already started on the Monkey Peninsula, so Sam should be printing money soon.

Without money, we can’t fight a war and we can’t place orders with military factories.

Because of this, Sam fell into a vicious circle and began to "let himself go".

Faced with such a situation, Zhao Mancang had no choice because the Federal Reserve had the right to print US dollars, and the US dollar was pegged to gold based on the Bretton Woods system, so the US dollar was also called the US dollar.

The US dollar is so strong because of Sam's powerful economic and military strength. People can print cash at will to buy rutile and other commodities in Zhao Mancang's hands. What can he do?
This is unavoidable behavior.

He can only make himself stronger. Maybe one day, he will be able to take a piece of meat from Sam's family and share some of the profits.

After learning about the situation of several companies including the Island Development Bank, Zhao Mancang asked about the real estate company of the Changda Group and the Hutchison Whampoa Company, and then he went to the Qifa Building in Central.

Whether it is the Changda Group or the Wharf Holdings, there have actually not been many changes in just a few months.

Even newspaper companies such as the Hong Kong Daily and Dairy Farm have not seen much change.

Take the milk company as an example. This company was successfully acquired by Zhao Mancang at the beginning of this year, and then privatized and delisted.

The dairy company owns so much high-quality land, and even if it wants to develop it, it is not the right time to do so.

It’s not that Zhao Mancang is short of money, but the timing is not right. The real estate market is far from being fully prosperous, so naturally it cannot be sold at a better price.

However, even so, Zhao Mancang's instructions were to ask the general manager of the dairy company, Kelun, to re-plan the Causeway Bay Farm and the Pok Fu Lam Second Farm after the privatization was completed.

All the new dairy farms were moved to the New Territories, and a large piece of land was purchased in the New Territories for dairy farming and the development of other planting economies.

After the land for the two major farms is vacated, the land will be leveled and replanned first, but there is no rush to decide when construction will begin.

In addition, the development of the Causeway Bay auto parts factory was also gradual. Zhao Mancang did not "force things to happen", and he could not make too many big moves.

He stayed in Hong Kong and Kowloon for two days to get a clear understanding of the development situation here. He also gained a lot of experience points from Xu Wenluo. Then he came to Mindanao and signed in again.

He did not stay in Mindanao for long. After signing in, he returned to Hong Kong Island.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, he just looked for Xu Wenluo to gain experience points, and then went to Kai Tak Airport to prepare for a direct flight to Tokyo.

Xu Wenluo's ventriloquism learning progress is pretty good. He can already communicate in short sentences of three or four words. However, his pronunciation is not very clear and fluent yet, and he still needs more communication.

Zhao Mancang's arrangement for her was to let her communicate and learn more with Fang Xiaohui. Anyway, he paid the latter a salary and had an extra subsidy, so Fang Xiaohui was very happy about it.

Money is not that important to Zhao Mancang; it is just a number.

Of course, money is just a number, and it is somewhat exaggerated, but it is an indisputable fact that Zhao Mancang now possesses a large amount of wealth.

All I can say is that the subsidy given to Fang Xiaohui is not worth mentioning.

If Fang Xiaohui can take good care of Xu Wenluo and allow Zhao Mancang to gain more experience points from Xu Wenluo, then his subsidy will be well worth it.

At Kai Tak Airport, Zhao Mancang boarded the plane smoothly and everything was fine.

In his opinion, this flight should also be a smooth one.

But no one expected that when the plane flew over the waters of the Bay Island for less than two hours, it encountered a thunderstorm.

This was a very bad weather condition, and all the tourists on the plane were panicked. Even Zhao Mancang was made very embarrassed by the passengers next to him.

Because the passenger next to him was a woman with a child. Because they did not fasten their seat belts properly, when the plane entered the thunderstorm area, the fuselage shook very severely, causing the child and the woman to be thrown out.

One of the children fell directly into Zhao Mancang's arms. Before he could hold the child and return her to her mother, the child vomited.

Oh my god, the kid in front vomited out all the airplane food he had eaten.

Zhao Mancang's reaction was quite quick, but he was still stained with some filth. He was really unlucky.

Even when faced with such a situation, Zhao Mancang still had the mood to care about his image. It can only be said that he was not too worried about such a situation.

Because he is fearless, he is not very worried even if the plane really crashes or disintegrates.

Below is the vast ocean, which should be the Pacific Ocean.

However, one thing Zhao Mancang can be sure of is that it is not very far away from our East Continent.

It can even be said to be very close to the Ryukyu Islands.

Bang!
Just when Zhao Mancang stuffed the girl into her mother's arms, a violent explosion was heard from the wing of the plane next to him. Zhao Mancang only saw flames rising into the sky, and then the engine on this side caught fire.

The fire seemed very weak amidst the dark clouds, lightning and thunder, but it was also a "light" that provided light for the plane, allowing everyone to see the condition of the wings clearly.

The engine caught fire and the cabin of the plane shook even more severely, almost making a 360-degree turn.

For a moment, the passengers in the entire cabin became even more terrified.

Faced with such a situation, Zhao Mancang was speechless. What the hell was going on?
How could he possibly encounter such a scene?

What happened just now, could it be that lightning struck the plane engine?

If someone swore at this time, would he be sent directly to see God?
Even more unfortunate things were yet to come. At this moment, the captain was still reporting on the radio that the plane had lost control and everyone should prepare to parachute.

"Wardfa"

Zhao Mancang's eyes widened, and the other passengers were even more terrified. Some were so frightened that they didn't even hear what the captain said next.

At this time, the plane was staggering and heading towards the sea, because the engine on the other side was also struck by lightning, but fortunately, it was not a complete failure.

Therefore, the plane did not dive directly into the sea, but instead swayed.

But the situation is so bad, save yourself.

At this moment, Zhao Mancang immediately took out his package from the luggage rack above the plane, and then took out a parachute bag from the package and put it on his back.

Airplanes in the 1950s and 1960s did not equip every passenger with a parachute. The reason was simple: equipping every passenger with a parachute would pose multiple safety risks and practical operational difficulties.

And due to technical limitations and safety considerations, using a parachute to escape is not a safe option even if an air crash occurs during the stable flight phase of the aircraft.

Therefore, for the safety of passengers, airlines would rather lose money than allow passengers to parachute out of the plane.

But Zhao Mancang didn't care about that. He definitely couldn't die here, so he had to find a way to escape.

Perhaps seeing Zhao Mancang's actions, the mother next to him immediately forced the girl in her arms into his arms without even thinking.

Originally, Zhao Mancang wanted to refuse, but the other party's eyes were full of pleading, so he had to hug the little girl.

Amid the little girl's heart-wrenching cries, Zhao Mancang steadied himself and kicked open the cabin door next to him.

He was sitting near the cabin door, which was his usual habit.

Then he leaped out with the little girl in his arms.

At this time, the plane had already fallen to a height of more than 1,000 meters. After Zhao Mancang left the plane, it was also falling.

It happened in the blink of an eye. Before the other passengers on the plane could react, the plane had already crashed into the sea. After a loud bang, the plane shattered into pieces.

Then there was an explosion, flames shot into the sky, and almost instantly, the plane completely disintegrated.

Zhao Mancang was still holding the little girl, and when he fell about 300 meters, he opened the parachute.

In fact, he had not received any parachute training, but when he encountered this situation, he frantically loaded the remaining several thousand experience points into parachute skills.

After all, he is also a mortal. Although he has cheats, he is not immortal. He also does not have the extraordinary ability to quickly recover from wounds like Wolverine.

Wow!
After a while, Zhao Mancang controlled the parachute and he and the little girl landed safely on the sea.

The little girl burst into tears and fainted soon after.

The little girl didn't faint during such a tense and exciting moment just now, but she fainted now. Zhao Mancang didn't know what to say.

He took out a fishing boat from the space, and then drove the fishing boat close to the point where the plane crashed. Looking at the flames rising into the sky, Zhao Mancang fell silent for a moment.

In this situation, there will definitely be no remains left.

Even so, Zhao Mancang jumped into the sea to search, but found nothing.

The plane had just flown over the Bay Island for less than two hours and was still a long distance away from Tokyo, which meant that there was still a lot of fuel left in the plane's tank.

After the plane crashed, it exploded immediately. How could anyone survive?
Zhao Mancang, who was terrified, returned to the fishing boat and took the little girl away from the sea.

He used a seaplane to leave here quickly, and his destination was still Tokyo.

However, he did not wake the little girl during the entire journey.

The little girl should be about seven or eight years old, not very young, but not very old either.

Judging from her appearance, it is hard to tell whether she is from Tokyo or Hong Kong or Kowloon, but Zhao Mancang knows that she is from Hong Kong or Kowloon because he heard the conversation between the little girl and her mother on the flight, and they spoke fluent Cantonese.

After bringing the little girl back to Tokyo, Zhao Mancang found a hotel to stay in. The next morning, he prepared to send the little girl back to Hong Kong and Kowloon and let her find her family on her own.

As a result, when the little girl woke up, she hugged him and cried in fear.

The crying also attracted the hotel waiter, leaving Zhao Mancang speechless.

After explaining to the hotel waiter, Zhao Mancang finally comforted the little girl.

After more than half an hour, under his guidance, the little girl slowly told him her situation.

Her name is Liang Tiantian, she is eight years old and comes from a single-parent family. She has a grandfather, but her grandfather passed away at the end of last year.

This trip to Tokyo was for tourism, mainly to relax, because her mother encountered some setbacks in her business.

Simply put, she now has no relatives and is an orphan.

And now that her mother has passed away, her future is probably in big trouble.

After hearing this, Zhao Mancang was speechless.

However, he still planned to send the little girl Liang Tiantian back to Hong Kong and Kowloon, and then send her to an orphanage. He believed that the Hong Kong government would definitely be able to help.

But at this moment, the system received news of experience points. Zhao Mancang took a look and thought, "Okay, it's better to send Liang Tiantian to keep Xu Wenluo company."

Because Liang Tiantian is also a tool, but her experience value is not much, only 99.

Although it's not much, a small amount is still meat, and it's something that Zhao Mancang can do easily. Besides, Xu Wenluo is also quite lonely. Asking her to help take care of Liang Tiantian might make her more cheerful, and maybe even gain more experience points.

After the decision was made, Zhao Mancang comforted her:
"Tiantian, don't be so sad. Now you need to have a good rest and eat well. I will take you back to Hong Kong and Kowloon tomorrow, okay?" The eight-year-old girl needed to be coaxed after suddenly experiencing such a thing.

Liang Tiantian could only nod pitifully, her two little hands tightly grasping Zhao Mancang's arms, as if she regarded him as her only life-saving straw.

In fact, this is true. She comes from a single-parent family. Although her family is relatively wealthy, it is because of their wealth that her mother took her to travel to Tokyo.

As luck would have it, we encountered a thunderstorm.

And if it weren’t for Zhao Mancang, Liang Tiantian would have already reported to the underworld.

For the next three days, Zhao Mancang was unable to get rid of Liang Tiantian and could only take her back to Hong Kong and Kowloon by plane.

When she was on the plane, her face was full of fear and nervousness, and no matter how Zhao Mancang tried to coax her, it was useless.

In fact, to be precise, airplanes are the safest means of transportation, much safer than cars.

However, once an air crash occurs, it is almost a fatal blow.

But judging from later situations, airplanes are still the means of transportation with the least traffic accidents, without a doubt.

Because even when walking across the street, many people die every year, and the number of deaths is actually comparable to that of plane crashes.

Of course, discussing such an incident is not something to brag about. Air crashes are disasters, and this is an undeniable fact.

After sending Liang Tiantian back to Hong Kong and Kowloon, Zhao Mancang assisted her and helped deal with her mother's inheritance.

During this period, Liang Tiantian's neighbor wanted to compete with Zhao Mancang for the so-called custody rights, causing a drama.

Because the neighbor had a good relationship with Liang Tiantian and her mother, after learning that Liang Tiantian's mother had passed away, the neighbor couldn't help but be greedy and wanted to fight for the custody of Liang Tiantian.

It’s a pity that Liang Tiantian doesn’t care about her neighbor at all, because compared with her savior, the relationship she has had with her neighbor for many years is so fragile that it can be easily destroyed.

What's more, Zhao Mancang is very capable and has a lot of wealth. He has also helped Xu Wenluo. Liang Tiantian certainly knows who to choose.

In fact, if Liang Tiantian was willing to choose her neighbor, Zhao Mancang would also agree.

Three days later, Zhao Mancang felt a little regretful.

Because he thought Liang Tiantian was a tool, but it turned out that she was not entirely one, because in the next few days, the experience points she could provide were only numbers like 29 and 39, which were really very few.

I thought I was a European king, but I didn’t expect to be an unlucky person.

He hadn't encountered a tool man for quite some time, and his luck seemed to have worsened.

And now, his tools, Zhuang Xiaoting went to Stanford University, Xu Wenluo is still in Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the rest of the tools are in Beijing.

But apart from Hu Xiaocao's four siblings, Ma Jiugong and Yuan Yushan need a lot of transactions to gain higher experience points. As for Tong Debin, the old man, he is more picky.

Zhao Mancang can only gain experience points when Tong Debin needs it, so he is not a very qualified tool.

Therefore, for Zhao Mancang, the tools who can most stably gain experience points are Hu Xiaocao's four siblings and Xu Wenluo.

So what if he is not an Afrikaner? Since Zhao Mancang has already promised Liang Tiantian, he can only let it go.

After settling Liang Tiantian, Zhao Mancang returned to Tokyo again.

There were no more accidents on this trip.

The plane landed safely at Tokyo Airport. Zhao Mancang sent a telegram back to Hong Kong and Kowloon to report safety to Liang Tiantian and Xu Wenluo.

Two days later, a violent explosion occurred in the center of Tokyo. Zhao Mancang came out of the bank warehouse covered in dust and dirt, and drove away.

This was the accident he created. Although it might not necessarily be known to Ma Jiugong and his superiors, he had to create such a commotion before he could explain the matter.

Outside the Tianjin Wharf, Zhao Mancang drove his fishing boat here smoothly, and all the leaders who had received telegram notifications early on all came running.

Wei Huayong immediately saw the fishing boat where Zhao Mancang was. The latter was standing on the deck, with several beams of light shining on him, making the former couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Mancang, you've worked hard. I'm glad you're back. I'm glad you're back. Are you hurt?" Wei Huayong was still very concerned about the 'sales champion' of his department.

It can be said that Zhao Mancang rewrote the current situation of the 108 departments with his own efforts.

Under the influence of Zhao Mancang, Zuo Changsheng, Mi Shouyang and others all went to Mindanao, and brought back a lot of gold, making a considerable contribution.

Before 1959, although our country was also short of gold, at least we still had more than 4 million ounces of gold reserves.

But now, there are often less than 10,000 ounces of gold reserves in the wallet, because as long as there is money, it will be traded away by Zhao Mancang.

Now, in the telegram sent back by Zhao Mancang, he directly brought back 20 million ounces of gold, which shocked the leaders of the I-shaped building on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street and other leaders.

As a result, many soldiers came to the Tianjin Wharf at this time, and there were even several warships around the fishing boats.

“No, I’m quite lucky.”

Zhao Mancang grinned, and was immediately hugged by Wei Huayong, followed by other leaders, each of them with a gentle smile on their face.

The reason why he gave the position to Wei Huayong was actually to use him to win people's hearts.

The leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street I-shaped building shook Zhao Mancang's hands tightly and said, "Comrade Zhao Mancang, on behalf of the higher-ups, I want to thank you. You are our hero."

There was thunderous applause and everyone was very excited.

Of course, I guess many people are cursing Zhao Mancang as an idiot in their hearts.

why?
Because what Zhao Mancang brought back from Tokyo this time was 20 million ounces of gold, which is about 570 tons of gold, worth 760 million US dollars.

When Zhao Mancang brought back about ten tons of gold in the past, some people already called him an idiot, let alone now?
Unless you are a fool, who doesn’t know that gold worth 760 million US dollars is enough money to last for several lifetimes?

But Zhao Mancang, this big idiot, actually brought the money back to the capital. Isn’t that too selfless?
At the same time, it also compared others, making some people feel extremely ashamed.

Zhao Mancang certainly knew what these people were thinking, because there were many people present who he had met before, even several times.

For example, Zhao Mancang knew the guards of those leaders.

What also surprised Zhao Mancang was that Ma Jiugong and Yuan Yushan were also in the crowd, as well as Li Qizhen, Wu Shengli, Jia Dingwen and others.

Therefore, these people contributed a lot of experience points.

Just from this wave of applause, Zhao Mancang has received positive and negative experience points totaling more than 3000.

This was also the first time he had received so much experience points in a single transaction.

But if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising that the 3000 million ounces of gold he brought back could yield experience points.

Besides, Ma Jiugong, Yuan Yushan, Li Qizheng, Wu Shengli, Jia Dingwen and others were originally tools, and the experience points contributed by these people accounted for the majority.

As time passed, all the gold on the fishing boat was moved ashore by the soldiers.

Although it was night, no one dared to act rashly, because every soldier carrying the gold was supervised by two soldiers, and there were also many leaders watching nearby.

All the gold brought ashore was weighed one by one, and it was finally determined that there were 20,378,700 ounces of gold.

Very precise, with virtually no errors.

A total of sixteen bank employees handled the weighing and registration procedures for the gold, so of course there would be no mistakes.

Zhao Mancang had no regrets at all. Anyway, it would not be long before all the gold would be back in his hands. He would then deposit the gold into the Hong Kong Development Bank or leave it directly in the system space.

Anyway, all the gold belongs to him and it won’t go far away.

On the way back to Beijing, Zhao Mancang rode in the same car with the leaders of the I-shaped building on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street, mainly to report on their work.

The co-pilot was Wei Huayong, and his direct supervisor was also listening.

"Leader, I left Beijing in February and went through a three-month incubation period after arriving in Mindanao."

"Perhaps because we've unearthed gold treasures so many times in Mindanao, there are more and more agents from the SAM Intelligence Agency, the KGB, and the British Sixth Agency across the island. I've even encountered agents from the Gallic External Security Service twice."

"There are so many agents on the island, and my movements are limited, so I haven't been able to find any clues for a long time."

"But just when I thought there were no clues, I suddenly found a clue more than half a month ago. I happened to see three fully loaded Kimura fishing boats leaving from an uninhabited shore. The draft was extremely deep."

"To test my idea, I chased them from the bottom of the sea, lurking close to the fishing boat and camouflaging myself."

"It took me a week to find an opportunity to verify my idea. There was indeed a lot of gold on these three fishing boats."

"But there were so many Kimura soldiers on the fishing boat that I didn't dare to move."

According to Zhao Mancang's narration, he accidentally discovered three Kimura fishing boats loaded with gold, and then followed them back to Tokyo.

There were so many soldiers on the three fishing boats that Zhao Mancang did not dare to take action. Not only because he was outnumbered, but also because he was afraid that the fishing boats would sink to the bottom of the sea, and everything would be lost.

The people of Kimura are very bad. Once things get out of hand, they are likely to blow up the fishing boat. When the gold sinks to the bottom of the sea, Zhao Mancang can only watch helplessly.

After all, the seabed is at least hundreds or thousands of meters deep, or even tens of thousands of meters deep. How the hell can we salvage it?

Finally, after arriving in Tokyo, Zhao Mancang decided to go all out and designed to transfer the gold.

Zhao Mancang did not elaborate on how he did it, but several banks in Tokyo were blown up, and he successfully brought the gold back to the capital without anyone noticing.

What Zhao Mancang described was very real, as if he had experienced it personally.

As far as this matter is concerned, the leaders chose to believe it because he did act alone. No matter what role he played in the middle, the 20 million ounces of gold he brought back were not fake, and that was enough.

Based on this alone, there is nothing to doubt about Zhao Mancang.

So even if Zhao Mancang said that he had cheated the 20 million ounces of gold from Kimura with his eloquence, the leaders probably wouldn't question it.

There's no question about it, damn, that's 20 million ounces of gold.

This money is no longer a drop in the bucket, but has greatly alleviated the current difficulties.

The leaders of the I-shaped building on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street praised Zhao Mancang repeatedly, and the good words never stopped.

He also praised Wei Huayong several times.

After the car returned to Beijing, it was parked directly in front of the gate of No. 7 Courtyard, Denglai Hutong. The leader told him to have a good rest.

Lin Wan, Zhang Dongyue and Lin Huijun were all woken up by the sound of the car and Xiao Hei's barking.

"Dad? Are you back? Woo woo" Lin Huijun rubbed her eyes, and when she recognized that it was her father who came back, she immediately burst into tears.

I had agreed in February that I would be away for a while and would be back soon, but that soon turned out to be early June.

In other words, Zhao Mancang had been away from the capital for more than three months, almost four months.

After such a long time, Lin Huijun certainly missed her father very much.

Zhao Mancang picked up the little guy, waved goodbye to the leaders, and watched them go away before returning to the yard.

Since it was too late, Zhao Mancang did not continue chatting with Lin Wan and the others, and urged them to go to bed quickly.

It’s just that Lin Huijun didn’t want to go back to her own room. She insisted on squeezing in with her parents, and she immediately curled up in bed and refused to leave.

Lin Wan had a cold face and was about to hit her with a feather duster, but Zhao Mancang reached out and stopped her.

"You stay with her. I'll sleep over here."

"If you do it again, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!" Lin Wanfang said harshly. Zhao Mancang was helpless. Lin Huijun stuck out her tongue mischievously, then covered her head and fell asleep.

The next morning, Zhao Mancang got up early and began to prepare for today's work: making rice dumplings.

The Dragon Boat Festival was on May 29th, but he was not in Beijing that day, so he did not spend the holiday with the children.

Now it's a way to compensate them.

"Dad, dad!"

Zhao Mancang had just filled the water to soak the glutinous rice when Lin Huijun started shouting.

"Dad, I thought you were out again. What are you doing? Are you making something delicious?"

Because it was soaked glutinous rice, Lin Huijun, who had just arrived at the kitchen door, was attracted by the glutinous rice and asked curiously.

"Yes, I didn't celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with you guys, so I want to make it up to you, so today we are making rice dumplings."

"yeah!"

When she heard that they were making rice dumplings, Lin Huijun immediately cheered with joy.

But before she could even shout a few words, her mother called her away because she had to go and help wrap the peaches.

Xiao Taozi and her two sisters are now one year old and have grown a lot. Although they cannot walk yet, they can crawl very well.

So she had to help look after it.

Zhao Juntao was born on May 16th last year. Now it is the beginning of June, so of course she is already one year old.

Even though she is already one year old, she doesn't see her father very often.

But it doesn't matter, from now on, she can see it more often.

Zhao Mancang was busy with breakfast preparations, while also having to consider things like rice dumplings leaves.

In the north, reed leaves are mainly used to make rice dumplings. This is actually very simple. As long as you can find a place with water, such as a river, a swamp, or a beach, you can generally find reeds.

In addition to rice dumplings leaves, there are also corn leaves, water bamboo leaves, etc., and in the south, there are bamboo leaves.

In fact, Zhao Mancang’s favorite is the bamboo leaves, because the leaves are large enough and one leaf can be used to wrap a rice dumpling.

Although I can’t say that bamboo leaves can be found everywhere in the south, they are definitely very easy to obtain.

Just when Zhao Mancang was about to go to the vegetable market to buy some rice dumplings, Lin Huijun also wanted to go with him.

"Let's go, let's go together." Zhao Mancang agreed with a smile, but Lin Wan looked embarrassed and couldn't help winking at him.

Lin Huijun was about to go out happily, but Zhao Mancang asked her to wait a moment.

Pulling Lin Wan aside, Zhao Mancang explained in a low voice:

"You might not know this, but yesterday all the Moscow experts boarded the train and left Beijing. Now, there's not a single Moscow expert left in the entire city."

This matter was discussed by the leader of the I-shaped building on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Street to Zhao Mancang on the way back from Tianjin Wharf last night.

It was precisely because of this that when the leader came back last night, he asked the guards to drive the car directly to Courtyard No. 7, Denglai Hutong.

Since there are no Moscow experts in Beijing anymore, Zhao Mancang no longer needs to keep it secret.

Since Khrushchev and his men were so unkind and unjust, suddenly withdrawing all the Moscow experts without giving them any respect, the leaders, although somewhat overwhelmed, had no choice but to grit their teeth and persevere.

Now the leaders can only wait. First, the explosion in the Northwest is expected to happen in a while. Second, with the 20 million ounces of gold that Zhao Mancang brought back yesterday, more industrial equipment can be brought back in a short period of time, and they can gradually overcome this difficulty.

However, when Zhao Mancang took Lin Huijun outside, he realized that something had happened.

(End of this chapter)